Speed run scores All under 300 days Bacteria-223 Virus-221 Fungus-220 Parasite-298 Prion-295 Nano-189 Bio-226 Neurax-168 Necroa-292 Necroa Virus is pretty lively and it mutates every month!
Well, here is my list of speed run. Note that many diseases are only my first tries and should need more explained tutorials. Bacteria - 227 Virus - 226 Fungus - 218 Parasite - 293 Prion - 280 Nanovirus - 184 Bioweapon - 242 Neurax worm - 154 Necroa virus - 344 My problem is Africa is hard to infect even with using blood, heat, livestock, arid, etc. For Necroa is necessary use less transmissions and symtomps because takes much time at early-mid game
My scores I've been using the stratigies posted on pg 308 and these are my times Bacteria 242 Virus 235 Fungus 256 Parasite 287 Piron 287 Nano 195 Bio 218 Worm 173 Necora 360 I have tried and tried and can NOT get fungus any lower (i am usually about 270-290) any suggestions? ***Just got fungus down to 229...I think my problem was playing it on fast forward. I used regular speed and paused often and that helped ALOT!!
Is that a typo on prion, 238??? I'm down to 264 but that's not even in the same ballpark as your score. If correct, whats your strategy for that one? For necroa. As stated previously there is no straight forward evolve strategy to get a great score. Necroa is extremely variable from game to game. I've tested many approaches and with my gene mods and steps 1&2, consistently produced the fastest starts. From the point, u need to fine tune the balance between sending massive hoardes and increasing severity/combat. Either way, You'll need to send hoardes to infect islands and resistant countries to get a good score. And of course play stop the clock, not regular or fast forward time. To simply beat 400, after steps 1&2, just buy the top 3 hoarde abilities, infect the islands, morocco, and any zcom, and then just keeping evolving zombie symptoms to increase severity/combat.
Top scores Top legit scores for speed run. If you have a better score, post it. Bacteria - 215 (mkesaber) Virus - 214 (mkesaber) Fungus - 204 (troxin/666) Parasite - 239 (StarViruZ) Prion - 238 (troxin/666) ??? Nano Virus- 171 (mkesaber) Bio Weapon - 214 (mkesaber) Worm - 154 (StarViruZ) Necroa - 272 (mkesaber)
Best for parasite is 276 (pterras62 which was on the top 25 list for a week or so). Followed the normal strategy only I select the "mutate transmission" gene to boost the chance of getting an early freebie mutation rather than the general mutations gene. Can't remember if I did anything special as it was only the second time I'd played parasite on speed run. I'll try it again today and see if I can add any tips. Update: Hit 274 on the repeat run on parasite. Usual China, Rodent 1, symptoms up to skin leisons (11 non lethal symptoms total ignoring insomnia and nausea) to start. Water 2, drug 1, Bird 1, Air 1, Necrosis, Drug 2, Bird 2, Air 2. I keep a close eye on the disease graph and try to evolve a new transmission or symptom anytime the infectivity goes flat, so adjust the order you evolve transmissions Vs abilities to keep the infection graph continuously rising. I no longer try to go Drug 1 followed by Drug 2 immediately as it takes too long to build the DNA and the infection graph goes flat, so I throw in a few transmissions in between the drug 1, 2 path - I think this is the key to Speed Runs, but what do I know???? After that I evolve symptoms to dysentry and insanity, then heat 2, cold 2. After that I keep an eye on the most pesky islands and after I get the Greenland, Caribbean and Madagasker infected, let the infection build just enough before going TOF, etc and keep evolving the most lethal symptoms available as the world dies. I did get a fairly early random Rodent 2 mutation along with some fairly non-descript symptom mutations, which no doubt helped. I've only run this 3 times, so I reckon you guys could probably smash this score if you put your mind to it. Judging by your other Speed Run scores less than 250 days must be achievable. Just tried ignoring the Rodent 1 at the beginning and going with only symptoms early on, but infection rate of China was lower than with Rodent, despite having a much higher infectivity and severity, so I,d say the Rodent 1 to start is also key. Also insect appears less generally effective than Birds with the general spread of disease. I'm also thinking that insanity is not a worthwhile use od 18 DNA so late in the game, so might try a different symptom to boost the infection rate?
Good table of transmission, symptoms and ability costs / benefits For those looking to boost their speed run scores, this link should help understand the cost and benefit of the options in the game. http://www.deltaattack.com/2012/06/03/plague-inc-guide/
New Parasite Speed Record Following on from the previous post, I went with Systemic Infection, rather than Paralysis and Bird rather than Insect. Parasite run in 257 days, and I reckon there's still quite a bit of room to improve and get below 250 days. 257 days is currently 24th on the list.
Please can you post you complete strategy, didn't see paralysis or insect mentioned in prior post. EDIT: Never mind: Re-read the post they are in the last paragraph EDIT: down to 271 days for parasite, definate room for improvement.
Parasite 250 days Just hit 250 days with Parasite by slightly modifying the strategy. Once you have bird2 and drug 2 you can ignore heat 2, assuming you get the 2 northern islands relatively early. The extra DNA can get you an extra symptom or earlier air 2. I've a sneaky suspicion that cold 1 may also not be needed - we'll see. Edit: Without cold 1, greenland didn't get sufficiently infected before going lethal, so TOF wiped out the infected and most of the population survived. Cold 1 seems to be definitely required.
Your posted strategy above evolved heat 2 after air 2 anyway so I'm now confused what you evolve in what order. Please can you post you new approach in detail. Thanks Nice job on 250.
Oops, error on the previous post Sorry, i mean to say you don't need cold 2 if you get the Northern islands early. I almost always end up with Africa getting infected most slowly, so always go for Heat 1 and 2, then cold 1. Full strategy, China, Rodent 1, 11 non lethal symptoms, Water 1, Water 2, Bird 1, Drug 1, Necrosis, Bird 2, Drug 2, Air 1, Dysentery, Systemic Infection, Air 2 Heat 1, Heat 2, Cold 1, As soon as I get Morrocco infected (always last one for me) go for Internal Hemorrhaging, Hemorrhagic Shock and as soon as I get Morrocco going properly (50,000+ infected) TOF, then additional lethal symptoms as DNA becomes available. I need to add the rider that I do keep a close eye on the infection curve and if it goes flat even for a day I evolve whatever of the above transmissions I can afford as soon as possible, so the exact sequence will vary from run to run. Depending on how thte infection is going I may go for heat 1 or Cold 1 slightly earlier - you just need to use your judgement. I think on the 250 day run I had an Insect 1 mutation earlyish and necrosis mutation just as I was building the DNA required to evolve it which really helped as I was able to get Drug 2 early. I do find quite a bit of variability in the rate at which DNA becomes free in the early stages of a run, so if the curve goes flat for 10-20 days I just abandon the run and start again. My best runs have had almost no flat areas of the infection curve until the very end in the death phase.
Nice strategy, I got 272 days on first shoot for following your way. UPDATE: 3rd shoot got 239 days with Insect and blood mutated. Also had to evolve cold2 because north islands have slow infection
Nice One 239 days - nice run. I haven't managed to crack 250 days yet but reckon it's just a matter of time until I get some nice mutations just as I need them.
Nice, 1st go 259 days, room for improvement if I can stop the infectivity plateau that happens right after full infecting China. I always get a few days where the disease infectivity graph is flat.
Same happened to me. Remember rusia and all europe have many countries with humid climate and west asia countries are arid but don't worry, you can tolerate to max. 30 days but try don't get flat 2 times.
